As I tried to think of a video for today’s Video Fridays installment, I thought of an old favorite song of mine, a song that speaks to the senselessness of violence, but, as it turns out, I already featured this song in a Video Fridays installment, back in September 2011.

And so, since I kinda like what I wrote back then, I thought I’d just make this a Best of Fish & Bicycles post, and republish it.

What can I say, it’s been a pretty musical week here at Fish & Bicycles, with my posts yesterday and Tuesday, and now today’s Video Fridays installment features a song that came on Pandora this morning, a song I love a lot.

Marvin Gaye was a deeply soulful artist, a troubled human being like so many before and after him, and his untimely death at age 45, at the hands of his own father, was one of the harshest tragedies in a music history littered by untimely deaths.

What’s Going On is one song that moves me a little further each time I experience it. It’s with some regret, though, that I think of it as a timeless message. What is going on? I suppose evolution takes its own bittersweet time. But I feel impatient. Thank you for sharing this link.

I feel impatient too! Like I just want a wave of love to sweep across the planet and wake everyone the fuck up, so that they realize how crazy and senseless and self-defeating and tragic violence is, so that everyone would simultaneously stop hating and fighting and start loving and cooperating with all living things.